Land Of The Dead

FUN!

A customer from camden , 11/10/2005

So Land of The Dead eh?

I liked it.

Yes it lacks some of the doomed fatalism of the other films, and yes it is very glossy (of course it is going to be pretty polished looking, they have a bigger budget than the last 3 put together, turbo-modern effects, and an A-List cast). But the claims that it scrimps on the gore and waters down the concept and content for a resident evil weaned teen audience are just a load of old rot.

Heads explode (man can those motherf**kers pop a skull), screaming victims get torn apart by armies of decaying ghouls, yard after yard of slimy wet innards get yummed up, there really are some grotesquely inventive eviscerations on show here. The screen is regularly awash with gore. He may have higher production values this time out, but Romero has not gone soft.

Land of The Dead is a tight, well-paced, well-executed entertainment; it’s a coffin-load of fun. Most surprisingly of all, the self aware and sympathetically presented zombies angle that they are going for that had filled my heart with fear (I really did think it was going to be total gash) kinda works. My friends and I often found our selves going “aw poor zombies” (tellingly Romero’s Black hero character that features in each film in the cycle is a zombie this time out, we are not supposed to root for the humans).

Despite a fairly bland and generic human hero (who has some fu*king excretable lines in the last scene), the cast and characters are all uniformly amusing (Argento, Hopper and Leguzamo et al all perform nicely), with snappy dialogue and likeable quirks (the Samoan squaddie’s every line is priceless “I came here to do something. Why are we standing around? Lets do something.”)

The heavy handed social commentary is all present and accounted for, Savini gets a cameo, it feels like a worthy addition to the series…

yeah there are naysayers but f*ck em, they are wrong. I am seeing it again next week and thoroughly looking forward to it.

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Not Quite As Good As The 1st

Millsey from Hastings , 10/01/2007

This film is great for the zombie loving people out there, its got some great effects, scenes and ideas, but the idea that zombies are starting to use their brians baffles me, the whole point of a zombie is its lust for brains to eat and nothing more....but I guess thats not up to me to decide is it! anyway the film is good, just not quite as good as Dawn of the Dead, as that was jumpy and a horror, this how ever is an action movie with no fear, still I would recommened you to watch it as it still looks good and is an easy film to just chill out too.

A Sunday evening film I think.

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THE KING OF HORROR ROMERO RETURNS.

A customer from Hampshire. , 28/03/2006

I class myself as a big Zombie fan & a big fan of George Romeros.I started watching his movies nearly 25 years ago with 'Dawn of the Dead', which blew me away & got me hooked. Since then I have follwed his Movies to the latest instalment, which has taken 20 Years since the last one 'Day of the Dead'. Now reading some of the reviews I can see that some of you are disappointed. I myself have been waiting all this time to see another Zombie Film from George hit the big screen & I wasnt disappointed.Yes there are things in this movie that im not totally happy with like Zombies becoming more intelligent,Folks still not working together after everything & a miles too short screen time, however after seeing it twice at the cinema & several on DVD I can still say I LOVE IT. This is the first time George has used more commonly known actors for some of his lead roles. John Leguizamo in particular, can be thanked for his great performance in this movie 'Looks like God left the Phone of the hook'. The charming Simon Baker & the legendary Dennis Hooper are just as good. Greg Nicotero did the special effects makeup on this movie as he did in 'Day of the Dead','The Cursed' & more recently the very sick 'Hostel'. I thought the look of the Zombies has come along way since the Blue faces of the original 'Dawn'.There is a tribute gorey sceen to his original 'Dawn' within this movie & they do not hold back on the gore. In conclusion if you are a Zombie Fan then you will love this, if however you tend to take your movies more seriously (like my wife), then you may not. I can only say to all Zombie fans is if this continues to sell DVDs & make more money, then George is more likely to get the funding for a sequel. Great Film lets have some more please!!

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Better than your average Horror

dogma from Rochester,Kent , 22/12/2005

Romero fans will be disappointed as despite the big budget, this film feels like a bit of a Hollywood sell out, it all builds up nicely then about half an hour before the end it seems like, we've run out of money now so better end the film quick. Still loads better than your average fodder though.

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Good film

Jacqueline Atkins from Ramsgate, England , 10/11/2005

This was a good fun film. It still had the same suspense of Dawn and Day but it lacked an little tiny thing but I can't put my finger on it. Some if it is quite gory and the new concept is a nice refreshing change. Great film, rent it when its out.

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disapointing

A customer from Sleaford lincolnshire , 08/12/2005

Ever since i saw Dawn Of the Dead back in 1981 on Betamax video,yes Betamax,i was and am fascinated by the undead genre of movies,but time and movie studios have not been kind to George Romero.The 1st thing that bugged me about this movie was the zombie effects,they seem less real than,Tom Savini's work on the previous movies to this,and the story was quite weak,it has a subtext of the surviors not changing to meet the world they live in,so the zombies evolve, and how greed and money are the downfall of society.

it has some good moments and its cast is good,but there was just something missing,and does anyone know how zombies smell after 20 or so yrs walking around because on none of his movies is there reference to smell,if a zombie is in the room,which would be a good indication of how close they are?.They are called walkers or stenches but maybe they dont smell strong enuff after being reanimated and decomposing for 2o yrs or so

The whole zombie,apocalypse genre has yet to be done justice,as its story is too large maybe a tv series would do it proud!

and apparently the directors cut is 5mins longer so i await to be impressed!

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